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A civil wrongful death lawsuit involving Death Row Records founder Marion “Suge” Knight has ended in a mistrial. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge declared the mistrial Wednesday after the jury reported they were hopelessly deadlocked 7-5 in favor of the plaintiff, Lillian Carter, the widow of Terry Carter. He was…

UPDATED, 1:47 PM: The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said today that Marion “Suge” Knight has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for the 2015 hit-and-run death of a man near the set of a commercial being shot for the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton. The incident happened while the Death Row…

A week from tomorrow, on March 16, Roadside Attractions and Lionsgate are set to release I Can Only Imagine, a modest, Christian-themed film about the group MercyMe and a hit song that shares its title with the movie. If you're a fan of the musical biopic, a genre that only a few years ago was filling theaters and…

Transcripts just released from a grand jury hearing earlier this year indicate rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight allegedly gave multiple menacing warnings to Straight Outta Compton director F. Gary Gray during filming of his Academy Award-nominated film. Specific details from the February hearing on the threats were made…

UPDATE with more details: It was a long time coming, but Marion “Suge” Knight was arraigned Thursday morning for threatening Straight Outta Compton director F. Gary Gray while the film was being produced three years ago. He entered a not guilty plea at the arraignment, which occurred in the courtroom of Los Angeles…

Former Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight has been indicted by a grand jury in Los Angeles County for making criminal threats against Straight Outta Compton director F. Gary Gray. Knight was charged with one felony count of making criminal threats from the August 8, 2014 incident on the set of the movie. Although the…

EXCLUSIVE: Andrea Berloff and Rick Famuyiwa will help the Sundance Institute guide 11 filmmakers through the often-tricky process of making their second feature. The Straight Outta Compton screenwriter and Dope director join CAA's Laura Lewis plus other industry vets and Universal execs in working with the Sundance…

Marion "Suge" Knight won't be getting a look at the bank records of Andre Young, known as Dr. Dre–at least, not any time soon–ruled Los Angeles County Superior Court judge Brian S. Currey in Compton on Tuesday. “The court quashes the subpoena as it is a nullity and wholly useless,” Currey wrote in tentative ruling…

Gerald “Jerry” Heller, the N.W.A music manager played so memorably — and, to Heller himself, hurtfully – by Paul Giamatti in Straight Outta Compton, died Friday of a heart attack in California. He was 75. His death and cause were confirmed to Billboard by Heller’s cousin Gary Ballen, who said Heller died Friday…

Tonight at the BET Awards, Straight Outta Compton took home the award for Best Movie, with Creed star Michael B. Jordan winning Best Actor. Beyonce also won, multiple times as it turns out, for Best Female R&B/Pop Artist, Video of the Year, Coca-Cola Viewers' Choice Award, and the Centric Award. In addition, the…

They might have been inexplicably ignored by the Academy, but the stars of NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton had the last laugh last night during the MTV Movie Awards, taped at the WB lot and aired tonight on MTV, with a short skit that called out the lack of diversity at the Oscars. Accepting the True Story award for…

Nearly five months after ex-N.W.A manager Gerald Heller filed a $110 million complaint over Universal’s Straight Outta Compton, the lawsuit survived a dismissal motion today and remains alive. In downtown L.A. this morning, a federal judge disagreed with the studio — plus director F. Gary Gray, Legendary Pictures…